Signed languages require spatial relations
Response to Law, Power, and Quinto-Pozos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11118050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J Idsardi (0000-0003-4461-2685) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | e226-e237 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2025.a969626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
In response to the target article by Law, Power, and Quinto-Pozos, I argue that signed and spoken languages share a common core of phonological mental representations, consisting of events (points in time and/or space), features (monadic properties of events), and precedence (a dyadic relation of temporal order between events). In addition to this, signed languages also include dyadic spatial relations between events/points in space and time. Illustrations of the EFPS model for signed phonology are drawn from some simple ASL signs, and an ongoing diachronic change in ASL motorcycle is analyzed using parallel events, partial reduplication, and underspecification
Conjoining Meanings
Linguistic uses of segmental duration in English
Subregular linguistics
Underspecification in time
On distinctive features and their articulatory implementation
Spatial Cognition, Modality and Language Emergence
Fricative Debuccalization and Primary Split in Terena (Arawak) Historical Phonology
Bringing signed languages into the study of regular sound change
Arbitrariness and Iconicity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |